Hello together,
I use now for 1 month the RoonServer on NAS. with my Synology RS1619xs+. The CPU power is better as the MAC mini 2014 I used before. In general it is integrating fine now and overall performance is indeed better.
My setup:
- RS1619xs+ with Intel Xeon D-1527, 2GB SSD Cache
- no additional SSD for Roon database! (tested it, but the performance was not as good as w/o!). It seems to me the NAS is providing roon everything from SSD cache anyway for reading and writing.
- about 100000 music files to index
On the upside:
- quicker than before
- stable
- with VPN roon is also accessible from outside for endpoints if external access mechanisms are activated on NAS.
On the downside:
- indexing of large folders still need some tinkering and hacks with scheduled scripts (inotify). But it works.
- complex DSP jobs (e.g. downsampling DSD 512 to 265 with some filter) have unsatisfying performance! Even though CPU workload is < 15% it is not up to the job. All usage key figures remain below 20%. It seems the roon server is simply not able to use the resources available. (this feature I don’t use - it was only for testing).
Many thanks to Christopher Rieke for his excellent job in providing a NAS solution!
I hope there will be regular updates and Christopher receives donations for this.
Cheers
Ronny